Psychotherapy - Need for Discussion about Potential Harmful Side-Effects SOURCE: Alex Langford and Keith Laws in the Mental Elf

If a treatment is powerful enough to have a good effect, then it’s powerful enough to have a bad effect. This is well recognised when it comes to medication, with strict regulations in place to ensure adverse outcomes are monitored and measured.  By contrast, psychotherapy has never been as readily associated with the potential to cause harm.


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Peer Support in Serious Mental Illness shows little clinical effectiveness according to recent systematic review - SOURCE Liz Hughes in The Mental Elf

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New Research and Practice Developments Symposium Friday 6 June 12.00-5.00pm at the Tavistock Center - Mothers Subject to Successive Removal of Infants and Children in Care Proceedings

There is growing national concern about birth mothers who appear and re-appear before the family court, losing successive children to public care and adoption. Establishing a national co-ordinated prevention agenda will bring clear benefits for birth mothers, their children and informal networks, as well as reducing demand on services.

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Tavistock & Portman's library subscribes to many online resources like journals, bibliographic databases, etc. To allow you to access them as simply as possible, we use a "signle sign-in" system: Shibboleth.
Using only the login and password of your Shibboleth account, you can access most of the online resources we propose.
Still, the login process of some resources might be convoluted. If you need help logging in, you can check out this page.
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Oliver James talks about link between childhood emotional abuse and adult psychosis in Guardian Article. SOURCE: CASPAR (NSPCC)

Emotional child abuse has to be banned – the science backs up our instincts 

The government is right: children need love as much as they do vitamins – and a lack of it often leads to adult psychosis

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SPECIAL SHOWING OF NINETEEN NINETEEN IN SUPPORT OF CAMDEN PSYCHOTHERAPY UNIT AT TRICYCLE THEATRE 27 APRIL

Sophie Rubin returns to Vienna from exile in the US to find Alexander Scherbatov , a White Russian aristocrat.  They are the last surviving patients of Freud.  Did Freud help them, or hurt them?  

The film will be followed by a Question and Answer session with director Hugh Brody, psychoanalyst Michael Brearley and Actor Juliet Stevenson.

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Don't Miss 15,000 Kids and Counting a New Channel 4 Series Starting on Thursday 10 April

On average, one child is taken into care every 20 minutes in Britain. This series has unparalleled access to the entire adoption process, from social workers to birth parents and adopters.

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We Forgot the Lot - Special Free Event for Children and Young People at Tate Britain Saturday 12 April 2014, 12.00 – 16.00

How do people look at art?  To make sure nothing gets forgotten Tate has teamed up with Touretteshero to give young people aged 5–16 the chance to work with visual artists. The participants will explore the national collection of British art, subjectively mapping their own experiences of the galleries and the art in order to transform the spaces to meet their individual needs.

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